Yeah, right!

With the idea to beat the heat and the tourist masses, we got up very early this first day in Thailand. Armed with cereal bowls and spoons and a box or granola and some milk we headed straight down to the Ao Nang beach to catch a long tail boat to Railey Beach, our destination for the day. What we didn’t realize is that the boat service actually only started at 8am, an hour later…

Railey Beach is just a 15min long tail boat ride away from Ao Nang, and it actually consists of four separate beaches, all surrounded and separated from each other by the towering carst rock towers that makes this place so beautiful. The Railey Beach area is the place to be for rock climbing in Thailand. There are over 1000 bolted routes in all ranges of difficulty and even though Luca and I didn’t go climbing today, we definitely will one of these days! We headed to Railey West and set foot on the perfect soft white sandy beach just after 8am and basically had the beach to ourselves! As you can tell from the pictures (which don’t do it justice), we were basically standing on a picture-perfect epitome of a postcard beach. What else to do but to take a plunge into the water…!

We had actually not planned or thought ahead very well that morning, so besides the bathing suits that we were wearing and two towels we had brought from the guest house, we had nothing else with us – no books to read, no journals to write in, no games to play. Nonetheless, we easily managed to spend the entire morning swimming, beach combing a little, relaxing in the shade, talking and swimming some more. Thoroughly roasted and hungry and thirsty, we had lunch in a little restaurant and then caught a long tail boat back to Ao Nang. Definitely a nice lazy start to our time in Thailand!